The Abilene and Smoky Valley Railroad’s quest to finish the restoration of its iconic steam locomotive, Santa Fe 3415, has ...

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Last month, I wrote about refrigeration design engineering being a lost skill. This month, I’m going to discuss another lost engineering skill: steam systems. When I started out at an HVAC consulting ...

Prolific inventor and renowned artist Leonardo da Vinci showed how to portray three-dimensional effects on a two-dimensional medium, says viewpoint author Stuart Walesh. In 1871, engineer James Watt ...

Britain's youngest steam engineer has spent two years and thousands of pounds restoring a 10-ton century-old steamroller.

BERLIN, Jan 14 (Reuters) - The steam engine is still shaping Germany's economy long after its invention with a new study saying areas that adopted the technology early still carry advantages, ...

I have a steam background from service aboard a U.S. Merchant Marine steamship and was licensed as a steam engineer by the state of Minnesota. I say the Duluth Steam Plant conversion to a hot water ...